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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rummiest War." In the United King dom authorities made frantic efforts to keep evacuated children from returning to town for Christmas, and literary bigwigs wrote persuasively in the press. "This Christmas, coming as it does in the rummiest war the world has ever known, will be a test of our common sense," wrote Novelist J. B. Priestly. "We are fighting bewildered, angry, hysterical men, who at any moment may bark out orders to rain death and destruction on this country. . . . Therefore, let the children stay [in the country]. . . . It is better to spend one Christmas Eve longing for them than...
Comrade Litvinoff's sole known duty today is to attend Supreme Soviet sessions, where he usually hears his heavy-tongued successor, Viacheslav Molotov. take a different tack. Meanwhile, Joseph Stalin's "Government of toilers," certainly "without declaring war" and surely "without a shadow of cause of justification," has, indeed, made war against Finland. And as last week the League met to do something about it, another Soviet delegate, Jacob Z. Suritz, also Ambassador to France, delivered no such ringing anti-aggression exhortations as used to be expected from Maxim Litvinoff...
...Greece (in the Corfu dispute), China, Ethiopia, Spain, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland. The League's Secretariat was set to work to coordinate and classify Finland's more pressing needs, and the prospects seemed good that at least some nations would send supplies. France let it be known that she could send some old artillery. Britain thought she could spare a few more planes...
...Least known of the 100-odd Roman Catholic dioceses and archdioceses of the U. S. is an intangible one called the Army & Navy Diocese. Its uncounted souls are all the Catholics in the armed forces; Catholic civil employes of the military; their families. Its priesthood: 517 Catholic chaplains, active and reserve. This diocese has no bishop all to itself; its last one was the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York...
...added work in the social sciences, in sociology, economics, and political theory. took the form of informal colloquies addressed by preachers known to have had first-hand experience in these fields in their parish work...